DUST PLUS X PANTHEISM X PANENTHEISM X HPOC X COSMIC PANPSYCHISM
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astronaut Edgar Mitchell:
"The biggest joy was on the way home. In my cockpit window, every two minutes: The Earth, the Moon, the Sun, and the whole 360-degree panorama of the heavens. And that was a powerful, overwhelming experience. And suddenly I realized that the molecules of my body, and the molecules of the spacecraft, the molecules in the body of my partners, were prototyped, manufactured in some ancient generation of stars. And that was an overwhelming sense of oneness, of connectedness; it wasn't 'Them and Us', it was 'That's me!', that's all of it, it's... it's one thing. And it was accompanied by an ecstacy, a sense of 'Oh my God, wow, yes', an insight, an epiphany."
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When you’re in deep, dreamless sleep, you are only aware of yourself, and you’re perfectly happy.
Your true Self is pure awareness that is only aware of itself.
From the peace of dreamless sleep, you appear to dream and to enter the waking state.
(The waking state is itself a kind of dream.)
Dreaming, you objectify yourself, and relate to yourself as another.
You identify with a body-mind, and think you’re “in” this body.
In reality, the body is only the vehicle you use to navigate the dream.
To realize the Self, we must turn our attention away from dream-objects.
To see the screen, we must look away from the movie.
We are already the Self, but we can’t realize the Self with our attention turned outward.
In the practice of self-enquiry, we ask Who am I? or turn our attention within.
The first thing we notice is the objective self - the inner narrator - disappears the minute we search for it.
We can easily see this “narrator” consists of thoughts, because it disappears the instant we stop thinking!
When the narrator disappears, we are left with something that seems like a blank.
This is where we get frustrated, because we think we’ve failed to have a spectacular insight, and the blank represents our lack of insight.
Au contraire.
Don’t throw the blank out with the bathwater!
Let’s get back to fundamentals:
Everything that appears is not the Self, so the Self must be that which doesn’t appear.
What does that which doesn’t appear look like?
To vision, it looks like clear light
To hearing, it sounds like silence
To the kinesthetic senses, it feels like stillness
To realize the Self, proceed immediately to your nearest point of silence.
Allow yourself to take an interest in silence.
This is self-enquiry, also called self-investigation.
Turn your attention to the blank spot you would otherwise overlook.
Your Self appears as that (silence, stillness) which you must overlook in order to keep dreaming.
Attend to this stillness and see what it is.
It doesn’t have qualities you can notice objectively, so pay attention to it subjectively.
Be it.
It’s like watching a movie:
To immerse yourself in the movie, you have to ignore the screen.
When you’re immersed in the action, the screen is an invisible blur on the edge.
In reality, the rest of your living room is far more obvious than the action you’ve trained yourself to notice on a screen that occupies 7% of your visual field.
Similarly, the silence you Are is far more real and obvious than the objective world you are not.
Soon, you’ll discover it’s infinitely more wonderful, too.
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When you’re in deep, dreamless sleep, you are only aware of yourself, and you’re perfectly happy.
Your true Self is pure awareness that is only aware of itself.
From the peace of dreamless sleep, you appear to dream and to enter the waking state.
(The waking state is itself a kind of dream.)
Dreaming, you objectify yourself, and relate to yourself as another.
You identify with a body-mind, and think you’re “in” this body.
In reality, the body is only the vehicle you use to navigate the dream.
To realize the Self, we must turn our attention away from dream-objects.
To see the screen, we must look away from the movie.
We are already the Self, but we can’t realize the Self with our attention turned outward.
In the practice of self-enquiry, we ask Who am I? or turn our attention within.
The first thing we notice is the objective self - the inner narrator - disappears the minute we search for it.
We can easily see this “narrator” consists of thoughts, because it disappears the instant we stop thinking!
When the narrator disappears, we are left with something that seems like a blank.
This is where we get frustrated, because we think we’ve failed to have a spectacular insight, and the blank represents our lack of insight.
Au contraire.
Don’t throw the blank out with the bathwater!
Let’s get back to fundamentals:
Everything that appears is not the Self, so the Self must be that which doesn’t appear.
What does that which doesn’t appear look like?
To vision, it looks like clear light
To hearing, it sounds like silence
To the kinesthetic senses, it feels like stillness
To realize the Self, proceed immediately to your nearest point of silence.
Allow yourself to take an interest in silence.
This is self-enquiry, also called self-investigation.
Turn your attention to the blank spot you would otherwise overlook.
Your Self appears as that (silence, stillness) which you must overlook in order to keep dreaming.
Attend to this stillness and see what it is.
It doesn’t have qualities you can notice objectively, so pay attention to it subjectively.
Be it.
It’s like watching a movie:
To immerse yourself in the movie, you have to ignore the screen.
When you’re immersed in the action, the screen is an invisible blur on the edge.
In reality, the rest of your living room is far more obvious than the action you’ve trained yourself to notice on a screen that occupies 7% of your visual field.
Similarly, the silence you Are is far more real and obvious than the objective world you are not.
Soon, you’ll discover it’s infinitely more wonderful, too.
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